Hell With A Capital H :A New Polar Hero

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Hell With A Capital H :A New Polar Hero

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Published: 7 November, 2002
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On 29 March 1912, as Scott and his two companions lay dying in their tent, elsewhere on the polar ice-cap six members of his ill-fated expedition were fighting for their lives. This was the so-called Northern Party, hand-picked by Scott to undertake his most significant programme of scientific research. The unsung hero of this group was Dr Murray Levick, whose attention to diet and mental and physical fitness played a major part in their survival. The doctor was a sensitive recorder and a talented photographer, it is on his previously unpublished diaries, monographs, photographs and sketches that this book is based. The six men were landed by Terra Nova in January 1911 at Cape Adare, 450 miles north of Scott's base camp at Cape Evans. They spent nearly a year there, living in a rudimentary hut, surveying and collecting specimens from the beautiful but inhospitable bay and shoreline fringed by inaccessible mountains. They were then dropped off mid-way between the two Capes to continue their work. The ship was due to pick them up on 17 February 1912. A month later she still hadn't come, and the men were forced to face the Antarctic winter in an igloo dug out of a snowdrift on 'Inexpressible Island'. After spending six-and-a-half months entombed in their underground ice-cave,in conditions of unimaginable physical and mental hardship,
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780712679954
ISBN10 0712679952
Number Of Pages 224
Item Weight 303 g
Product Dimensions 153 x 234 x 16 mm
Publisher / Reseller Vintage
Format paperback
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Hell with a Capital H is a wonderful book and the result of painstaking research. Katherine Lambert has produced a well-balanced analysis of Scott and of many of his expediiton team. The main focus of her gripping story centres on the horrendous tribulations of the isolated Northern Party. Better than any of the many Scott biographies I have read, this book brings out the real characters of the participants and the interplay between them as they dally in their icy and all but fatal Hell. * Ranulph Fiennes *

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Author's Bio

Katherine Lambert has worked as a magazine editor and then a book editor and producer. Currently managing editor of the annual Good Gardens Guide, she also worked with Peter King on Scott's Last Journey.Journalist Peter King's 35 books include Scott's Last Journey and an edition of Shackleton's South (Pimlico).

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